Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated
expertise, in accordance professional conduct
• To embody a population health approach to the role, contributing expertise to 
the team’s community programme
• To supervise, appraise, support and guide Nursing Associate(s) and/or Mental 
Health Practitioner(s).
• To provide expert, autonomous and specialist clinical practice within a 
multidisciplinary team and to include initial assessment and formulation using 
a range of mental health or other specialist tools. 
• To do make appropriate judgements when required to do so about own 
caseload. 
• To assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care in negotiation with service 
users, carers, and other services, considering the needs of a diverse 
community. 
• To undertake key working responsibilities.
• To apply a range of therapeutic modalities, using evidence-based 
interventions in accordance with the requirements of service line care 
pathways. 
• To contribute to multidisciplinary team decisions at the point of discharge 
and or transfer of the service user.
Better Mental Health. Better Lives. Better Communities.
• To participate in and provide a specialist nursing perspective to 
multidisciplinary team meetings/case discussions.
• To maintain contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust 
and the relevant professional body.
• To assess and manage risk on a continuous basis, in line with Trust policy.
• To coproduce support with service users and with their consent, where 
appropriate, seek the cooperation of friends, relatives, carers. 
• To provide and support other members of staff in their assessment and 
management of service user care needs through reviewing initial data 
collection; monitoring of their progress; feedback; discussion and reports at 
support planning
• To identify carers and to offer carers assessments and review carers care 
plans.
• To support the assessment of physical health care needs of service users 
by team members and ensure that on-going physical health monitoring / 
review of service users takes place. 
• To provide relevant information for service users relating to health 
promotion and wellbeing. 
• To be able to demonstrate and explain clinical reasoning in relation to 
professional input to a service users’ care plan when required to members 
of the team, trainees, or others external to the organisation. 
• To recognise and respond appropriately to challenging behaviour in line 
with Trust policies.
• To at all times to act in accordance with trust policies in relation to risk 
assessment and safety planning, contributing to comprehensive 
assessments of risk and monitoring as appropriate.
• To have up to date and detailed knowledge, understanding and 
experience of mental health legislation as required by the service line.
• To be aware of personal accountability and responsibility in respect of 
ensuring that cleanliness standards and practices are maintained in the 
clinical environment and that these are compliant with PEAT, The Hygiene 
Code, CQC requirements and Trust Infection Control protocols and 
procedure.
• To follow Trust policy in promptly reporting all accidents and incidents.
• To undertake investigations when called upon to do so or 
nominating/supervising relevant others in this role. 
• To be responsible for the administration, carriage, and storage of drugs in 
accordance with relevant policies and professional guidelines. 
• To review and recommend medication changes as appropriate in 
consultation with medical staff re efficacy and possible side effects and to 
develop user centred medication concordance. 
• To undertake and lead where appropriate, in the evaluation and audit of 
professional interventions, clients and the service. 
5.Operational Responsibilities 
• To maintain confidentiality of information, in accordance with Trust policy.